AR-News: (NL)Genetically Manipulated Bull Put to Sleep

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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Herman the Bull, the world's first farm animal
carrying a human gene, was euthanized Friday because he was suffering from
a form of arthritis, his caretakers said.

He was 13, not exceptionally old for a bull. His ailment was unrelated to
his genetic manipulation, said the Naturalis museum in Leiden where Herman
spent his final years.

A human gene was spliced into Herman's genetic code while in an early
embryonic stage in 1990, in the hope that milk produced by his female
offspring would bear a human milk protein. The process was cutting-edge at
the time, but has since been refined and is commonly used.

The experiment was only a partial success. Milk from Herman's descendants
contained the proteins, but at such low levels it wasn't commercially
worthwhile to extract them.

full story:
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2004/04/02/ap/Headlines/d81mom000.txt

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